Dong Energy is to supply its REnescience technology to waste management company Cenviro to test the potential to produce biogas from food and other organic waste in Malaysia
The Danish company said it is shipping a mobile version of a REnescience plant to the south-east Asian country to test the potential of the technology in a Malaysian context as the content of waste differs from country to country.
Dong said the majority of Malaysian waste ends up in landfill sites and is not used for any other purpose.
The company plans to send the mobile plant to other Asian countries to test whether there is an export market for it.
REnescience uses enzymes to convert organic waste into biogas and Dong is constructing its first full-scale plant near Manchester in the UK.
The UK facility will be capable of handling 120,000 tonnes of waste a year and is expected to be operational at the beginning of 2017, Dong said.
Dong Energy executive vice president Thomas Dalsgaard said: “Malaysia is a very interesting market for our technology, as there’s a growing need for exploiting the resources in the increasing waste volumes.
“A REnescience plant can produce large quantities of biogas from the very wet Malaysian household waste.”
Image: Malaysian landfill (Dong Energy)
Dong plans Malaysia tech test
Deal with Cenviro to test waste gas potential in south-east Asian country
By EBS